There is no best dating app for this. None of the big apps sorts women by background, and nothing about being a white man means you need a different app or a different script. The app that works is the one the women you want to meet really use in your city, so test two of them for a few weeks and keep the one that sends you more matches who answer.

Why a "Latina app" does not exist

Tinder, Hinge, Bumble and the rest sort people by age, distance and what they say they want. They do not sort by heritage, and a few apps that claim a specific community are small next to the main ones.

So the useful question is which app has the women in your area, whatever their background, rather than which app has Latinas. A city with a large Latin American community will show you plenty of women on the same apps everybody else uses. A town with few will show you few on every app. The app cannot change the local numbers.

Pick the app by the city, not the headline

Which app dominates depends on where you are. a dating coach says Tinder is the app almost everyone uses in much of Europe, while in the United States and its big cities he rates Hinge higher. He ranks Bumble well below Hinge. Those are his views, and they show how much the answer shifts with the map.

For you, that means an afternoon of cheap research. Ask women you know which apps their friends use. Open two apps, set your distance to the area you really live in, and see how many women your age appear in a day. The app that fills your screen with real options is the right place to start.

Do not pay for anything before you have tested the free version for a couple of weeks. a dating coach's view is that paid features multiply a result you already have. They do not rescue a weak one.

What actually decides your results

Once you are on the right app, the work is the same for every man. Clear daylight photos where she can see your face. A few written lines with one real detail she could ask about. A first message that notices something specific and asks an easy question.

Your photos matter most. If you are getting few matches, the photos are the likely cause well before your background is. The article on why you are not getting matches on dating apps walks through the checks in order, and they apply here without any change.

Do not write to her ethnicity

This is where white men most often hurt themselves. They open with her background as if it were her whole personality, or they lean on a few stock lines about Latinas, and the reply never comes.

Treat her as one particular woman. Read what she put on her page. If she mentions a hometown, a dish or a band, ask about that, the way you would for any woman. A question about where she grew up and what people there always get wrong is a fine way in, because it asks about her and not about a stereotype.

If she writes in Spanish and you do not speak it, say so and keep going in English. A few words you actually know are fine. Pretending to a fluency you lack tends to fall apart on the first date.

If you are meeting women in another country

Plenty of men use apps to meet women while travelling. The same rules hold, with three extra ones.

First, speak on the phone or on video before you meet. a dating coach's view is that a call cuts the number of flakes and tells you whether the woman is who she seems. Second, make the first meeting a public, well-lit place, and tell someone where you are. Third, treat warnings seriously. Men's travel guides warn that in some cities an app date can be a setup to rob a visitor. The advice is simple. Meet in public, keep your drinks in view and never go anywhere private on a first meeting.

Do not send money to a woman you have not met, whatever the reason she gives.

When the replies are scattered

Some conversations arrive as five messages at once on five different subjects. a dating coach's rule for those is to answer only the part you can move forward, keep your tone light, and steer toward meeting. He treats a scattered reply as a conversation to lead, not a sign of disinterest.

Aim to have a phone number and a plan within a handful of exchanges, instead of letting the chat run for weeks.

If you are not getting anywhere

When a couple of weeks of steady use on a well-chosen app gives you nothing, the cause sits in your photos, your written lines or your first message. A coach can look at all three together and tell you which one to change first.